Neeraj Bora (born 31 March 1967) is an Indian politician and a member of the

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the- ...

. He is the son of the former U.P. legislator D.P. Bora. He is a member of the

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and was elected into the legislative assembly in the 2022 U.P. elections from the Lucknow North constituency by defeating ooja Shuklaof Samajwadi Party.

Life

Neeraj was born in the Shohratgarh tehsil of

Siddharthnagar district Siddharthnagar district is one of the 75 districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh also known as the birthplace of Gautama Buddha. Siddharthnagar is the district headquarters. Siddharthnagar district is a part of Basti division. It was unde ...

of Uttar Pradesh. He was always greatly influenced by his father D. P. Bora, a politician, and wanted to work in the social sector from a very early age. After completing his schooling from Mahanagar Boys' School of Lucknow, he went on to study medicine at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Medical College, Bangalore. He completed MBA programme and became a communication specialist, started teaching. Neeraj is married to Bindu Bora and has three children, a son and two daughters. In the past, he was also elected as the Dist. Governor & Multiple Council Chairman of Lions Clubs International for MD 321, and was the president of the Lucknow branch of Indian Medical Association in 2002–2005. He is also the president of the International Vaish Federation of U.P. He also established Sewa Hospital and Bora group of Institutions, including Institute of Allied Health Sciences, Lucknow. A doctor, teacher, philanthropist and politician, he is rendering his services to the society from past three decades, now MLA at Lucknow. He contested Mayor election for

Lucknow Municipal Corporation Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) is a local government for Lucknow, the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration in the city of Lucknow, in short it ...

against Dinesh Sharma

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as INC candidate and was defeated by nearly 171000 votes in 2012.

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